That sounds very much like a Northern Cardinal. They have a number of song
patterns, so any examples that one might hear from a commercial bird song I=
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cd may not be the exact one...if the tone / quality of the song is similar,
then cardinal should be the mystery bird....if not, then ????
Mark Phinney
on 4/18/04 10:38 PM, Dan Dugan at wrote:
> Mark Phinney wrote,
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>> I get this sort of thing a lot....description of a bird or a sound and
>> someone trying to relay it to determine an ID....I'm the first to admit =
that
>> I'm terrible at interpreting someone else's description...it never seems=
to
>> be quite the way I'd describe it!
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> While you're at it, friends, try this one that was sent to
> Questionbird. I'm the tech guy, I only know about a dozen birds by
> ear.
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>> I live in North Central Illinois and have been hearing a bird the
>> last two mornings before dawn singing bo-cheer, bo-cheer-cheer on my
>> telephone wire. I can barely see the bird but it is a beautiful
>> sound. Can you tell me what bird it is? I am fairly new to birding
>> and do not know the different sounds.
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> -Dan Dugan
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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